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Parya Vatankhah

Parya Vatankhah
acrylik on canvas 100x150

It wouldn’t matter that how old I was or where I lived, I was mesmerized with artistic works and crafts.

At the age of 12 I began writing poems and drawing paintings. Staring through the window in my room at the street windows in midnight hours; pondering over sleeping souls, their joys & sadness. I wanted to see happiness & laughter in everyone’s face; and could’ve shed tears for hours about their miseries.

I was drawing sketches, paintings, reading books & writing poems. The things that intrigued me the most always was about love & emotions of females, sickness of the society, the obstacles and isolations of the dependent women; and what picks my interest the most was the woman’s figure.

How fast the time flies when you do what you love; even if the subjects are sadness & suffering of yourself or others; even if you are in a depressing mood.

Even though my appearance is always mild & smiling, inside I am disturbed, full of pain …and … nostalgia … nostalgia of the good days for Iran, pain, individual & cumulative pains. And sometimes this art is my way to get rid of these kinds of thoughts.

One of the biggest problems that I had in my work & I think I still have it as an Iranian is that: why we shouldn’t do our works with a free mind & why our daily life in Iran is full of censorships, self deception & cumulative deception.

The concept of being a woman had always been as sanctification in my mind; the elegance, power & solitude of a woman; even in the crowd. The oppression against innocent women in Iran whom their only sin is not having freedom, by force. Force base on the times in Iran and the struggles of a woman to be found in history.

I never have thought about a feeling, individually & with regard to conception, in an unconditional way. In my works, always, there is a kind of binary; darkness over brightness….

The golden lines over blackness! The reason is, in my opinion, we don’t have a pure and innocent human being & also we couldn’t find a sinful one.

Even with intention, even without being aware, this concept of duality, always, shows itself in my works; a woman who coughs up blood but smiles at the same time: it’s possible she is me or even it could be you!

In my opinion, we couldn’t find that much difference in the arts of incarnation currently in the world; and because of that you could observe the same concepts in my works in recent years; even they are photographs, video-arts or paintings.

It is possible that the key concepts of my works-woman, woman’s figure & the meaning of death-are based on my own experiences & the social conditions which exist in Iran; and abstract concepts such as metamorphosis & duality.

In my works, I had always been searching to discover a mystery; even if I had been aware of it or not; and I have searched for truth. If someone asks me about those mysteries & truth, I won’t be able to provide a specific answer in words; my only answer is showing my works.

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